Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Children
  • You
  • Queen

• The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Funny
  • Woman
  • Grateful

• We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

  

  Iman
  • House
  • Early
  • Press

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Work
  • Unknown

• It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Beginning

• Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Done
  • Law
  • Hand

• It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Profound

• The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Violence

• I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Simple
  • Empowering

• I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Game
  • Player

• If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Money
  • Management
  • Insurance

• I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

  

  Jimmy Rushing

• I really enjoy drawing, and I enjoy design, fashion design especially. If acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'd probably go into design.

  

  Angourie Rice
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

  

  Corey Stoll
  • People
  • Lost
  • Romantic

• If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Great
  • Words

• Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Vegetarian
  • Cannibal

• Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Waiting
  • Silently